UPDATE:The second season of David Letterman‘s Netflix series,My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, will feature interviews with Kanye West, Ellen DeGeneres, Tiffany Haddish, Melinda Gates and Formula 1 racer Lewis Hamilton. ** David Letterman’s interview series My Next Guest Needs No Introduction will return to Netflix for its second season …
Read More »The Hold Steady Plot Summer Weekend Shows
The Hold Steady will host weekend-long residencies in a handful of cities across North America later this summer. The band’s “Constructive Summer 2019” series will launch with three shows at the Crocodile in Seattle, Washington, August 15th, 16th and 17th. The band will then play three gigs in Chicago, Illinois, …
Read More »See 'SNL' Cold Open Tease Republicans Over Enduring Support of Trump
Saturday Night Live opened with a Meet the Press sketch that teased Republican leadership over their unimpeachable support of Donald Trump, even as the president’s actions conflict with their own political beliefs. For instance, all three GOP members – Beck Bennett’s Mitch McConnell, Kate McKinnon’s Lindsey Graham and Cicely Strong’s …
Read More »'Prayed for You' Singer Matt Stell Details 'Everywhere but On' EP
Singer-songwriter Matt Stell, whose single “Prayed for You” is currently climbing charts, has announced details for his new EP. Titled Everywhere but On, the seven-track collection will be released via Sony Music Nashville on May 24th. “Prayed for You” originally appeared on Stell’s independently released 2018 EP Last of the …
Read More »Grammys Name Deborah Dugan New Recording Academy President and CEO
The Recording Academy has appointed Deborah Dugan as its new president and CEO, Variety reports. She will take the place of Neil Portnow, who will step down in July after helming the organization since 2002. Dugan comes to the Recording Academy following her role as CEO for (RED), the nonprofit …
Read More »Soho Grifter Anna Delvey Sentenced to Four to 12 Years in Prison
Anna Delvey, the so-called Soho Grifter was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison after being found guilty of scamming hotels, restaurants, banks and more out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, The New York Times reports. Last month, Delvey (born Anna Sorokin) was found guilty of eight of …
Read More »Ask a Budtender: Back to Basics
In legal states, dispensary clerks have become the de-facto experts on modern weed products and how to use them — offering everything from recommendations on the kind of flower you should smoke to the best vape system to fit your particular needs. Yet for the rest of us, in non-legal …
Read More »'Killing Eve' Recap: Babes in the Woods
A review of “Smell Ya Later,” this week’s Killing Eve, coming up just as soon as I look like someone stuck a mustache on some fudge… “Together again. Gee, it’s good to be together again. I just can’t imagine that you’ve ever been gone. It’s not starting over. It’s just …
Read More »Brandi Carlile Enlists Sheryl Crow, Amanda Shires for 2020 Girls Just Wanna Weekend
Sheryl Crow, Patty Griffin, Lucius, Amanda Shires and Lake Street Dive are just a few of the names announced today as part of the lineup for Brandi Carlile‘s second annual Girls Just Wanna Weekend Festival in Mexico. Jade Bird, Yola, KT Tunstall, Ruby Amanfu, Natalie Hemby and Katie Herzig will …
Read More »Bird-Dogging Beto: How Students Convinced O'Rourke to Swear Off Fossil-Fuel Money
When former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke, now a 2020 candidate, bounded up onto a platform inside Trinkle Hall on the campus of William and Mary College in Virginia in mid-April, he may not have known he was bounding into a carefully planned ambush. Scattered throughout the audience, student activists were …
Read More »